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Are you sure the comment is not displayed, or just winds up showing further down the thread like it did when I logged out and looked at it ?

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 01:49:11 PM EST
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Aagh of course

<checks>

yep its just ordering them differently.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 02:13:57 PM EST
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Yes, I checked and it was nowhere. Now I'll check again.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 02:49:45 PM EST
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OK, it is there <duh!> But I can see no logical order to the way comments are displayed.

The first top-level comments are something like #8, #36, #39... The time-stamp doesn't order them, it's not oldest top or newest top. The order doesn't come from ratings either.

That's what I wanted to look at: how does a new user see a comment thread?

To be as real a new user as possible, I logged out, left the site, came back. And did the same using IE. The result is identical.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 03:03:29 PM EST
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Maybe number of replies is taken into account?

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 03:18:41 PM EST
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The order seems random from that point of view.

Do you know what the default setting is for comment thread display, or where it's defined?

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 03:35:25 PM EST
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Problem later settled by changing one of the default comment display settings so that ratings are ignored.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jul 13th, 2008 at 03:17:45 AM EST
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Under IE it's always been like that. The only thing I've noticed is that higher rated comments proceed to the front, but unrated child comments weigh them down.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 05:18:48 PM EST
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Do you mean as a new or unlogged-in user? Or when you're logged in?

As a member, you can change comments display settings on your user settings page.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jul 13th, 2008 at 03:15:14 AM EST
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